The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-07-29

the raven and the rabbit and the lion in
the desert and forget you. Why,
naturalists tell US that the porpoise VIII
not forsake its wounded and sick mate.
And do you suppose the Lord Of Heaven
and earth has not as much sympathy as
the fish of the sea? But you say, 81 am
50 near worn out, and I am Of no use to
God any more"
think the Lord knows whetheryou are
Of any more use or not; if you were Of no
more use he would have taken you before
this. Do you think God has forgotten
you because he has taken care OF you
seventy or eighty yearsl He thinks more
of you to-day than he ever did, because
you think more of Him. May the God Of
Abraham, and Isaac, Jacob, and Paul the
aged, be your God forever.
But gather all the promises to-day in
a group, and ask the shepherds to drive
their focks Of lambs and sheep up to the
sparkling supply.
Behold, happy is the man whom God cor
| recteth.
Though he cause grief, yet will he have COM
passion.
Many are the afaictiOns Of the righteous, but
| the Lord delivereth him out Of them all
Weeping may endure for 8 night but Joy
cOmeth in the morning.
| am determined this morning that no
one shall go out of this house uncom-
| forted. Yonder is a timid and shrinking
/ soul who seems to hide away from the
! consolation 1 am uttering, as a child with
/ a sore hand hides away from the physi-
| clan lest he touch the wound too roughly,
and the mother has to go and compel the
| little patient to come out and see the ply
| stefan. So ] come to your timid and
| shrinking soul to-day, and compel you to
come out in the presence of the Divine
| physician. He will not hurt you. He
! has been healing wounds for many years,
and he will give you gentle and omnipo-
| tent medicament. But people, when they
have trouble, go anywhere rather than to
| God.
De Quincy took opium to get rid Of his
troubles. Charles Lamb took to punch.
! Theodore Hook took to somethin g
stronger. Edwin Forrest took to theatre
cal dissipation. And men have run all
around the earth, hoping in the quick
transit to get away from their mis-
| fortunes. 1t has been a dead failure.
There IS only one well that can Stake the
| thirst of an afdicted spirit, and that is
the deep and inexhaustible well Of the
| Gospel.
But some one says in the audence:i
''Notwiths landing all you have said this
morning, 1 find no alienation for my
troubles"
Well am not through yet have left
| the most potent consideration for the last.
| am going to soothe you with the thought
| of Heaven. However talkative we may
! be, there will come q time when the
stoutest and most emphatic interroga-
ton will evoke from US no answer. As
soon as we have closed our lips for the
final silence, no power on earth can break
| that taciturnity.
But where, o Christian, will be your
| SPIRIT In a scene of infinite gladness.
The spring morning of Heaven waving its
| blossoms in the bright air. Victors fresh
| he
rain of earthly sorrow struck through
with the rain bow of eternal joy. In one
| group God and the angels and the re-
deemed-Paul and Silas, Latimer and
Ridley, Isaiah and jeremiah Payson and
John Milton, Gabriel and Michael, the
archangeL Long line of choiristers
reaching across the hills. Seas of joy das b.
ing to the white beach. Conquerors
marching from gate to gate. You among
| them.
Oh, what a great flock of sheep God will
gather around the celestial well. No
stone on the wel's mouth, while the shep-
herd waters his sheep. There Jacob will
recognize Rachel, the shepherdess. And
standing on one side of the well of eternal
rapture, your children; and on the other
side of eternal rapture, your Christian
ancestry, you will be bounded all
sides by a Joy so keen and grand
that no other world has eyer been
permitted to experience it. Out
| of that one deep well of Heaven, the
shepherd will dip reunion for the be.
reaved, wealth for the poor, health for
the sick, rest for the weary. And then all
the flock Of the Lords sheep will lie
down in the green pastures, and world
without end we viii praise the Lord that
on this summer Sabbath morning we were
permitted to study the story of Jacob and
Rachel, the shepherdess, Of the well in
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